With 100% English Ancestry, I thought it might be really difficult to trace my ancestors back in England from Canada. Only my mother, her father and his mother were born in Canada. This Blog will talk about researching my English ancestors from Canada but also the ancestors of our son in law whose families stretch back far into Colonial French Canada. My one name study of Blake and of Pincombe also dominate my blog these days.

Monday, April 24, 2017

Will of James Blake otherwise Blacke, Seaman belonging to the Marlborough India Ship - The National Archives PROB 11/844, probated 15 Mar 1759

There are a few records on Family Search of interest but not possible to separate out the correct family readily. The spelling of Blake is somewhat different in this Scot records.

1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I James Blacke Seaman now belonging to the Marlborough
3 India Ship being in bodily health and of sound and disposing
4 mind and memory and considering the perils and dangers of the
5 Seas and other Uncertainties of this transitory Life do for
6 avoiding controversies after my decease make publish and
q declare this my last Will and Testament in manner following
8 (that is to say) first I recommend my Soul to God that gave
9 it and my Body I commit to the Earth or Sea as it shall
10 please God to order and as for and concerning all my worldly
11 Estate I give bequeath and dispose thereof as followeth that
12 is to say all my Wages Sum and Sums of money Lands
13 Tenements Goods Chattels and Estate whatsoever as shall be
11 any Ways due owing or belonging unto me at the time
15 of my decease I do give devise and bequeath the same
16 unto my loving Father William Blacke of North Britain
17 and I do hereby nominate and appoint Mr John Blacke of
18 Grecess Street London Linnen Draper Executor of this my
19 last Will and Testament hereby revoking all former and
20 other Wills Testaments and deeds of Gift by me at any time
21 heretofore made and I do ordain and ratifie these presents
22 to stand and be for and as my only last Will and Testament
23 In Witness whereof to this my said Will I have set my
24 hand and Seal the twenty second day of November in the
25 Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty five
26 and in the twenty ninth Year of the Reign of his Majesty
27 King George the second over Great Britain etc James Blake
28 Signed Sealed Published and declared in the presence of us
29 John White Geo: Wilson
30 This Will was proved at London before the
31 Worshipfull George Harris doctor of Laws and Surrogate of the
32 Right Worshipfull Edward Simpson also doctor of Laws Master
33 Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
34 lawfully constituted on the fifteenth day of March in the Year
35 of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty nine by the
36 oath of John Blake otherwise Blacke the sole Executor named
37 in the said Will to whom Administration was granted of all and
38 singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the deceased he having
39 been first sworn duly to administer